| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Anonymous. 1601 |
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62. Icarus
Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs and Airs |
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| LOVE wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly | |
| Far from base earth, but not to mount too high: | |
| For true pleasure | |
| Lives in measure, | |
| Which if men forsake, | 5 |
| Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take. | |
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| But my vain Hopes, proud of their new-taught flight, | |
| Enamour'd sought to woo the sun's fair light, | |
| Whose rich brightness | |
| Moved their lightness | 10 |
| To aspire so high | |
| That all scorch'd and consumed with fire now drown'd in woe they lie. | |
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| And none but Love their woeful hap did rue, | |
| For Love did know that their desires were true; | |
| Though fate frownèd, | 15 |
| And now drownèd | |
| They in sorrow dwell, | |
| It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell. | |
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